At this point, Matt has to go. Open source is open source. It’s that simple. WP Engine should donate more, but capitalism is all about exploitation and that’s what they were doing. That’s not on WordPress to right as a wrong. When they were selling free tier users’ content to LLMs, I didn’t see them offering to pay 8% forward to users.
WordPress bans WP Engine from sponsoring user groups • The Register
Submitted 5 months ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to technology@beehaw.org
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/15/wordpress_bans_wpengine_from_events/
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Matt Mullenweg has lost his damn mind and it’s time to fork WordPress and send Matt to the naughty corner with other corrupted forked open source projects like the ones owned by Oracle.
Kissaki@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Will we call it WeirdPress?
conorab@lemmy.conorab.com 5 months ago
PatchLess